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Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative.

By: Barchiesi, Alessandro.
Contributor(s): Marchesi, Ilaria.
Material type: TextTextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (212 p.).ISBN: 9781400852482.Subject(s): Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism | Homer -- Appreciation -- Rome | Homer -- Influence | Imitation in literature | Latin poetry -- Greek influences | Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 | Rhetoric, Ancient | Rome -- In literature | Virgil. AeneisGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Homeric Effects in Vergil's NarrativeDDC classification: 873.01 | 873/.01 LOC classification: PA6931 .B3413 2015Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Cover; HOMERIC EFFECTS IN VERGIL'S NARRATIVE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introductory Note; 1 THE DEATH OF PALLAS: Intertextuality and Transformation of the Epic Model; 2 THE STRUCTURE OF AENEID 10; 3 THE ARMS IN THE SKY: Diffraction of a Narrative Theme; 4 THE DEATH OF TURNUS: Genre Model and Example Model; APPENDIX; APPENDIX: The Lament of Juturna; AFTERWORD; NOTES; WORKS CITED; SELECT INDEX; SELECT INDEX LOCORUM; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
Summary: The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer. Approaching Homeric allusions in the Aeneid as "narrative effects" rather than glimpses of the creative mind of the
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Cover; HOMERIC EFFECTS IN VERGIL'S NARRATIVE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introductory Note; 1 THE DEATH OF PALLAS: Intertextuality and Transformation of the Epic Model; 2 THE STRUCTURE OF AENEID 10; 3 THE ARMS IN THE SKY: Diffraction of a Narrative Theme; 4 THE DEATH OF TURNUS: Genre Model and Example Model; APPENDIX; APPENDIX: The Lament of Juturna; AFTERWORD; NOTES; WORKS CITED; SELECT INDEX; SELECT INDEX LOCORUM; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer. Approaching Homeric allusions in the Aeneid as "narrative effects" rather than glimpses of the creative mind of the

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The Italian version of this book (1984) became a classic among Latin literary theorists for its new interpretations of the influence of the Iliad and Odyssey on the Aeneid. Scholars had long noted Virgil's debt to Homer, but Barchiesi (Stanford Univ.; Univ. of Siena, Italy) was the first to show that Virgil alluded to the Homeric poems in order to comment on and develop some of his poem's most important themes. The book attained additional fame for showing how to apply intertextuality--at that time a new theoretical concept--to the study of Latin literature in general. This first English translation (which is clear and pleasant to read) will thus receive a warm welcome, and two additions increase its value beyond that of the original publication. The first of the additions is an appendix (originally published in 1978) concerning the role of the deity Juturna in the Aeneid; the second is a substantial afterword in which Barchiesi discusses important developments in similar scholarship on Virgil and literary criticism in the past 30 years. All readers of Virgil will want to peruse this book, and adherents of literary theory especially will find much in it to praise and ponder. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Michael Joseph Johnson, Vanderbilt University

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Alessandro Barchiesi is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Classics at Stanford University and professor of Latin literature at the University of Siena, Italy. He is the author of several books and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies .

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